472 Selected Articles in Scientific Serials. [ June, 1880. 
-doctrine of descent. Mr. W. O. Crosby remarked on the age and 
succession of the crystalline rocks of Guiana and Brazil. 
April 21.—Mr. W. O. Crosby concluded his remarks on the 
age and succession of the crystalline rocks of Guiana and Brazil. 
Mr. E. Burgess read a paper on the structure of the mouth-organs 
of ogre some other points in their anatom 
y 5.—Annual meeting for the election of officers and for 
the SE of the reports of the custodian, secretary, etc. 
Mr. S. H. Scudder was elected president. Dr. B. J. Jeffries re- 
marked on the present position of the question of the develop- 
ment of the color-sense. 
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, New York, fa rip —A 
paper on Japan as it is, was read by Rev. Edward W. Lyl 
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF Sciences, April 5.—Mr. B. 5 Red- 
ding exhibited a very artistically constructed fishing fly, manu- 
factured and used by the Indians. The Indians, he said, will beat 
us in fishing. By the same gentleman, twigs of the Larrea mext- 
cana, with the lac insect imbedded, were shown. These he had 
procured from Arizona since Prof. Silliman read a paper on the 
subject. He expressed a doubt about there being a sufficient 
quantity to make the extraction of the shellac lac-dye a 
profitable industry, though the process is very sim 
[ Note.—We have just received a paper on this lss from Mr. 
. E. C. Stearns, for early publication.—Æditors.] 
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SELECTED ARTICLES IN.SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND Arts.—May. Outlet of 
Lake Bonneville, by G. K. Gilbert. Chemical and geological 
relations. of the atmosphere, by T. Sterry Hunt. Archzan rocks 
of Wasatch mountains, by A. Geikie. The sternum in Dinosau- 
rian reptiles, by O. C. Marsh. 
PsycHE.—March. Contains a valuable résumé of advances in 
the anatomy of insects during 1878 and 1879, by E. Burgess. 
THE GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. EA Bn on the geographi- 
cal distribution of volcanoes, by. J. M 
NATURE.—April. Mr. H.N. KOE is publishing in Nature, 
for this month, a valuable lecture on deep sea dredging and life 
in the deep sea 
QUARTERLY Joduiak or Mrcroscoricat Scrence.—April, The 
coffee leaf disease of Ceylon by W. T. Thiselton Dyer. Devel- 
opment of the kidney in its ‘relation to the Wolffian body in the 
chick, by A. Sedgwick. Notes on the development of Araneina, 
by F. M. Balfour. Some teachings of devel near by 
Schäfer. On the histology of Hydra, by T. J. Packer. The 
Orthonectida, a new class of the phylum a worms, by A. Giar 
